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THE OREGON -SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY.. HORNING, t ? f1' fTf 1?. HPT IT? T""T TT XT AT I i jl JLj J UUlViN rXXJ AN IvrrrENPEN'T NEWSPAfES. ...pahw; JA. h. N. . p ! itrf evening ne t The jtnti bo ia- , .-.. Ported, or. K;"h ami Ym 1 f.r.wj at the fr trnrr.!si.in ttmnsgB tb mail aecnndj liLKl'HONKS Main 11T3; lU'ine. A',!1 Ail department, n-schfl br thfe number. f't) lh operator hnl rtenartmrpt T" "' FOREir, AriVKRTISIVG RKPHKSKSTATI V E. Pn1nn1n Knilnor Co., Brunswick Building SS'rtf'h trenw. New Yorai Peopla ; KiifMlne. Ohlcapo. '' S'lhdcription Trm tr or to ny addrwajy the czar's decree in 1905. It was In the I oit4 State r sieiiw. .. Ont jrear.. .15 on i On month... fCNTAT. 2 .v I On month... .1 .50 On year. .. - natt.v n st NDAY. On rar '. ,.$7.V I On month... n The sands are numbered that make tip my life; Here must I stay, and here my life must end- . Shakespeare. -a A THRICE TOLD TALE F RED B. SMITH of Iowanas been drawing the ministers of San Francisco to ' hear that the church Is diminishing in mem- bershlp, Is weakening In influence, has let. the nrosnerous and well fed i j, commercial world divorce itself from LthlsJ!!cliurcJi," and has-been shoot ' ing off too many blank cartridges of an antiquated theology." and that what "the church ' needs is new crams. , Pleasant hearing, this, for the ministers. And for remedies these . .i i .....it,nj ' "What we preachers" must realize is that a change has taken place In religious thinking. What most i needed In the church today Is to have the church a big open forum where the shortcomings of the church can be openly discussed. The pastor of the future will be more of an administrator, of other men's lives than merely the central figure of meetings." ' What a delightful chiirch meeting that "big open forum" to discuss the shortcomings of the church would be! ... . - We trust Mr. Smith was Incorrect ly reported. The sneaker prophesied the early federation of "the Protestant church : es." It would be well to have m,ade clear what kind of church he sup poses Is to be the Institution which " these "Protestant churches" are to compose. From what has been told ' of the doings of the committees that have been for many months at work they agree as to creed, just on sim ple statements of belief that te i traceable back fc Christ and to the And they agree certainly on this that membership la that church must be proven by clean character and self- denying living. . Some thousands of fair average people have been reading things the last lew weens mat. nave ei mum thinking. They Join 'in the belief, whether they express It or not, that there is no real division between the things of . this world and of the world to come. Whatever way be the fate of our fellow men hereafter they, and their wives and children, were not meant to suffer hell here. . Ignorance., poverty, and the fear of it, sickness, dirt, Idleness, uncleanll ness of body and of soul, are real devils. Unless a nation, a city, or a church will fight these obvious ex pressions of evil, those Institutions whlch means the men composing tfcamxiiHl Aaaarvtt in Via vlctlmn if '"blank cartridges ot antiquated be lief.V and to be driven ,to the "big, open forums" for "discussing the. shortcomings of the church" of . which we have heard. A worse fate cannot be imagined. Out of ninety-two millions of Americans how many are there now, at this moment, suffering from re mediable ills? As we see, as we read, as we think, are we to play priest, or levite, or good Samaritan? We are not short on knowing, but very short on doing, The Samaritan found the robbed and wounded man right in his road. A RESURRECTION THE supreme court ordered the Standard Oil of New Jersey dissolved into its' constituent parts. Not only was the hold ing company to lose its properties and its vitality, but the optimistic court had visions of free competi tion between the still living, though severed, arms of the octopus. The dissolution was completed , and . the,. stocks of the subsidiary companies distributed. ".The stocks of one of them the Standard Oil -of Indiana are very much alive. Wall street reports that ita nominal capital stock Is to be multiplied by thirty, and then dis tributed among the holders of the Indiana stock, Just extricated from the treasury of Standard Oil of New Jersey. By way of smoothing over this wonderful tale of multiplication it is announced that the original $1, 000,000 only nominally represented the' value of the actual assets. . Then how far back did the fraud begin? How many balance ' eets must have told false stories? How many led gers must hold accounts based on what Imaginary amounts? It is said that this company thlB one. of the thirty-three has po use ' for twenty-nine million dollars out of , the thirty and will, turn that nice turn over to the stockholders. Is It all water, or part water and part oil? r Let us not forget that the oil buy- jr of the .United .States ,wll.,have to squeezed lor dividends on- the thirty; minions of the Indiana Oil, Us well as for who knovrs tow many millions oa all the rest or the thirty j three companies. It looks r-i if Judge Landla had some; Idea gessed that twenty-tine million dol- , . THE SEED OP INDEPENDENCE T O quiet, if possible, the brewing storm of revolution In Russia a legislative body called" the uuina was cauea into existence I rflut t v .hi were elected from' the great cities Inland from, the-agricultural districts t .65 -of the etnpire. Itg-assent by vote was required for-all legislation, the same provision apnlylng to the coun cil of empire, the upper house. No sooner constituted than the duma began to stretch itself and try its wings. It set out to cure arbi trary. police measures and to secure personal liberty. Promptly the war, on advice of his premier, Stolypln, took action and dissolved It after some few months' life. A second was summoned. Its life was a short one too. Two months proved it not broken to har ness, ana sc. stoiypin sent u aoout Its business A third duma took. Its place. That also quarreled 'with the premier. That quarrel was Wt In the first In stance the duma's own. The reac tionary council of state refused Its consent to a bill strengthening the powers of the Zemstvos, or county councils.' Stolypln got the czar to prorogue both, legislative bodies for three days, then promulgated the Zemstvo law by royal . decree. Wheredn the duma got out of hand promptly and was dissolved. Then Stolypln was shot. . A successor, Kokovtsoff, was. ap pointed and a fourth duma called. A remarkable thing has happened. Poland, having been thrice Invaded, conquered, ; and shorn la pieces by Russia, has been for 'l: three years fightln? a fourth partition, by which a new province called Chelm was to be created out of two of the ancient Polish provinces, annexed to the neighboring' Russian province and subjected utterly to Russian laws. ... It was tobe. withdrawn from the jurisdiction of the governor of the Polish capital, Warsaw, and placed under the heel of the" Russian min istry of the interior. The duma revolted and ultimately defeated the government measure by 139 to 135. And the duma still lives. - . So la shown the spirit ot opposi tlon to autocratic rule, which, even in czar-ridden Russia, often defeated is not. killed out. It seems then that Mr. Bryan was justified the other night In adding Russia to -his list of countries where the masses of the people, dl rectly or indirectly, are r striving to find, first, expression,' and then'free dom. RAILROADS AND SETTLERS URN back the clock for forty years and see how Oregon looked then. 3he had no rail roads. The Columbia river on the north and the Willamette Jn the western division of the state were the arteries. Wagon roads in west ern Oregon stretched aouthT from Portland on each 6ide of the, river. If a traveler's business or pleas ure compelled a land journey in those days between California and Oregon and if he were not pressed for time he would take a bugcy in summer time.- Farm houses were plentiful, anc". the latchstring was always out. If the journey was of compulsion and in winter the pleas anter way was on horseback. The main travel between western Ore goto and California, was from a val ley town southward over the moun tains to the California gold fields, with Oregon flour, bacon end apples. Population was sparse. Much Oregon land was held under the do nation land act,, which gave 320 acres to the settler and 320 to his wife choose it where they liked. Land was cheap, neighbors scarce, and communications difficult and slow. . Then came the era of Ben Holla day, . the first great speculator in Oregon possibilities, and of the rail road . builder by. means of land grants. In 1865 there were but 19 miles of railroad in Oregon in 18T5, 248 miles. - The Oregon and California had been projected by 1872. It had previously to that time betn endowed by the congress cf the United States with-the magnit'eent gift of the alternate sections in a strip of land forty miles wide through the center of which the rail road was. to run. The object Inspiring the grant was to-people Oregon. Sales In the railroad srant were to be in areas not exceeding 160 acres each, and at prices not exceeding $2.50 per acre. On these terms the company ac cepted the gfant, ' and sold in its early years selected farms to the lucky settlers of thote days who had the right of choice extending over an empire. Through the great valley the grant ran for 140 miles, covering the rich bottom lands on which the prodigal settlers grew wheat ysar by year. It" stretched on either side for many miles up -the slopes of the Cascade and the Coastjnountains, dark rrllh the masses of fir and cedar and hem lock, above the scatter d oaks of the near foothills. Timber stood as an incumbrance in thej way of the improving farmer, by the m. .aumnni feat. So., the-. even-n-'.mbered sections, outside, the alternate mileage o' the railroad land grant, wrra cleared by fire by the -settlers. But the value of the railroad sections, 'for timber or for fafms, was beginning to appreciate two aoiiars ana a naif an acre for timber or for farming land had sounded a fair If not a full price. The land lay Jn a wilderness, and that in an inaccessible state on the shore of the Pacific. Sales were very slow, and not over 1000 acres had passed from the railroad's hands In 1872. , . l nen tne aavisers and managers of the company looked ahead, and thought a reading of the land grant might be secured from the secretary of the Interfcr limiting , the $2.5 0 price and the 160 acres quantity, to lands in actual possession of settlers when the grant took effect. But the secretary held then, as the gov- ernment does today, that the grant meant just what it said, and that by that reading the railror.d com pany rnust Btand or fall Neverthe less the railroad tightened the strings and held both Umber and lands for what the company thought tnem wonn, oy-virtue or the un earned Increment. When offers sat isfled them they'Took' the' price otherwise they held on for a future rise. r, -. Hence the long pending suit to annul the grant. A MINISTER SOCIALIST T HE story of Rev. George W Lunnr. recently elected mayor of Schenectady, New York, Is told at length by Alfred Henry Lewis, in the "World today," but extracts will have to suffice for this article. George W. Lunn was born thirty- nine years ago. in the village of Lenox, Iowa. He left home to Beek his fortune in the west when seven teen years of age. ; He landed in Council Bluffs with five cents in his pocket, and paid that out to the streetcar ' company to take him' to Omaha. , He served a grocer and ; n Insurance company, but he thirsted for a college education. His real history begins when, at nineteen years of age, he made his way to Bellevue, the town of a !ittle university close to Omaha, and pre sented J himself for admission, his worldly fortune being just three dollars. There .they took him In. After, what stress in the. Inner life we know not, Lunri decided that he was called tto preach. He was 'li censed in the Presbyterian church, and began what he intendtd to be his life work in two little churches and a school near Bellevue. After seven years of development at Bellevue our hero made his way fa Princeton. The Spanish war broke out He enlisted, was taken down with fever, and fought for his life before he re turned to Princeton. After a course at the Union Theological school he became assistant minister of the La fayette Presbyterian church of Brooklyn and married. Three years later he was '"called" to the First Presbyterian church of Schenectady. He settled down to fight the world, the flesh, and the devJLin orthodox fashion. To fight them In the ab stract suited his congregation. But the streetcar comp-ny crossed his path and their doings amounted, to Dr. Lunn, to a challenge. The war fare grew embittered, the streetcar company pulled strtngr In-the ifirst Presbyterian church, and Dr, Lunn soon found himself out of his berth. On the point of leading Schenec tady Dr. Lunn was ctopped by 1500 working -men, - who approved his streetcar fight. They proposed that he preach .'In the Mohawk theatre. He accepted, and being both an. ear nest Christian minister and a nat ural and! trained orator, congrega tions overflowed. Dr. Lunn's the atre church was named the United People's church. The Jay Street Congregational church proposed that he should preach to them In the morning and In the theatre in the evening. And this was the condition when, in September last, the election for mayor of Schenectady came round. The Socialists, inspired by his working 'men's congregation, urged Dr. Lunn to run. He con sented. They set his name r.t the head of their ticket, and a land slide elected the Preacher-Socialist mayor of that "city ot seventy-three thousand people. - And, they say he makes, a first class mayor. Now, was the church the loser? Was the city the loser in chooBing a scholar and a preacher for its offi cial head? Was Dr. Lunn. in the right in leaving his life work of preaching and of the pastorate In order to give the city the benefit of his common sense, his Insight Into human nature, his fighting Integrity, his hatred of vice and meanness, his "influence for light and leading? Was he not serving the same mas ter in the pulpit and. In the mayor's chair? PoBBibly in the pulpit he had a- better chance to reach men's souls. In the mayor'B chair he cer tainly had the better opportunity to benefit men's bodies., EDUCATION IN CHINA w HAT stronger proof of the reality 6t the revolution' itf China can be given than that the'Jirst work undertaken by the Just appointed secretary of state for education was to Bead out cir culars to the military governors in the various provinces urging the general resumption of educationa.1 work on a modern .and uniform basis? . Not only was a set f . temporary rules sent with the circular for ,4he government of schools and their teaehefSi butod ateM arrh-fc wan set for the re-6penlng of all element ary Bchdols.1 This date Is called March 5 cf the first year cf the re public. High schools and training schools for teachers are to be set going also, as soon as finances will permit. Classical studies in the elementary schools are cut out. Elementary handicrafts are to receive special at tention In all, Rioting, looting and murder have spoiled, these ;fair rrospects since these orders were issued. But If the new republic is only rocked and not thrown down from her seat we may be well assured the schools will re sume work at the earliest possible day. HOUSEHOLD SCIENCE rHE long' neglected study of in household science!, ... taught America first through the Ag ricultural colleges, and now reaching both high schools and pub- llRvSchools,. has been taken- up In England during the last six. months. While with us the entire family are its. objects, while it bears the more exDressive name of household economy, reaching the house and Its sanitation, the health of all adults and children while v cookery ,1s ac cepted as a scientific art, and dress making is not omitted, there, on the other side of the Atlantic, the chief aim of the pioneers of the movement the : rearing and caring for the child. The sum of $500,000 has been privately subscribed " In London In three months, and to that success, the patronage and the direct aid of Queen Mary have greatly contrib uted. - ' : The first thing was to secure qual ified teachers, who could directly reach all classes in their homes. . To this end King's college for women was chosen. There classes for nurses to be specially trained in the care of children, from birth onwards, are established. . Such students are to be housed. In Queen Mary's hostel, whish is to be built near by the hospital; This enterprise Is a side measure among the many begun or contem plated for the benefit of all classes of the English poor. The families of the factory workers in English textile .and other Industries have paid dearly- for the money earned by mothers, bestowing on machines the time and labor due first to their own children, in being or la pros pect. Stunted and prematurely aged children throng the streets of factory towns there' as well as here.' Ignorance concerning the nurture and upbringing of .he children. Is one of the deadliest foes to the na tion's -true- prospery:.i,y'' Chronic Ills are hard to quickly . . . . Hi. m cure. Tne economic nonunions oi the workersUantfUeSL.Tnust; besd- usted to -the possibilities of -health before the physical conditions . can be set in tune. But in the needed instruction the preparation ot the teachers comes rightly first. The first number of the Meier & Frank Store Bulletin tas - appeared. It, compares well 'with like issues from the great stores of eastern cit ies. It breathes friendliness and common Interests from every page. It is chock full of good advice from outside and inside. ' It needed the funny page to lighten It for the gen eral reader, and is to be congratu lated on tun (. without coarseness, breeziness without ' gush. Candidate Lea . is Mr. Bailey's choice for state dairy and food commissioner- Has Mr, Bailey been Can didate Lea's choice for dairy ' and food commissioner? A scientist says talking is an aid to long life. If he is correct,' wo- pro fess to be abte to look around end point out several prospective Methu selahs. " (Communtcstlooa ant to The Journal for pub ltotlon lo tbla department ahould Dot -exceed S00 words In length and naiiat be aroompanlod bx the name and addresa of tb tender.) "Depends on the Brand." Portland." March t.-To thr Editor ot The Journal In looking over your grand and valuable paper tonight I noticed tne following: "McCoy, Or., March 4. To th Editor of The Journal (1) Please give the di mensions of the largest sea serpent" ever seen or killed. (2) Have they ever been known to destroy ships? LEE LOSEY. I think I can very nearly answer. In 1888 I left Portland to go to New York on some business, and while I was In New York 1 heard of a Job ot deep water diving. I was then supposed to be one ot the best deep water - Ai vers lit.- the United States or any other country. The job was at Portsmouth Bay on Lake On tario. Canada. I went tor raise s, large barge loaded with cases of books and a large marble statue of the late Queen Victoria for ib Canadian New Library at Ottawa. Ont. While I was at work there was a report of a large sea ser pent seen in Lake Ontario, A Mr. Cheaffy and Mr. Hayes, who owned the shipyard at that place, set large wire snares across the mouth of Portsmouth Bay, and In about three days the large sea. serpent was caught. His measure ments were as follows: His head meas ured 22H Inches across and 12 inched deep, and from the head down lfl feet he was 18 Inches In diameter; from there down 16 feet he measured 18 inches In diameter, and 20 feet down from there he was 12 Inches in diameter, and from there to .his tail, about 28 feet, he meas ured from 10 to 1 inches In diameter. He was drawn upT the shipyard by steam engine and was to be sent to Lon don, England. He measured In all 80 feet. I have never heard of a sea Serpent attacking a ship, but I know of devilfish attacking largo tehooners and also of swordflsh. I know this from personal experience. , CAPT. J. F. RYAN. P." S. It all depends on the kind of brand a person drinks. -Thinks Drndgcry-loq-llard, Portland, Or., March . -To tho Editor of The JournalC I Von Derahe, In your valuable paper of February J7 Letters From tte People states that there are better c ane-s ar.J opportunities than at the tiif pit fa thers came to this country, and that It is easier now to make a living than it was at that time. In this connection, will he kindly figure out for us how much his father or any other man could savj under present day conditions work ing for JS per month. While we may tdmire the ambition of a man who will carry his lunch and walk six miles to work and return each day. we should like to ask Mr. Von Derahe what credit, such drudgery re flects on a people as a, nation? What time does a man laboring under such conditions have to associate with his famflvt TX'V. . I . . . j or to even read the happenings of the day from his papers galn. ooes Mr. Von Derahe, or any of you,, dear read ers think it anything' to point to with pride that little children had to rise at t and 4 o'clock In the morning and work until dark? Add to this little or no schooling, and we have a state of affairs which would result la the most deplor able ignorance within a few generations, to say nothing o the physical condition of such offspring. . very true, modern times have given us Inventions and conveniences which our iorerawsrs never dreamed of. These snouia be used for the development and pleasure of all mankind, and not fer tha use of only a favored few. laboring from befora daylight until after aaricr instead or little or no rlnrtinn. instead of trying to see how few of the good and beautiful things of life we can do with, let ua have an equal share of our 24 hours devoted to wofk, recrea tion and deep. Then we will have a nation of people of which we can be justly proud. MIS3 INEZ LUCKKY. N ews forecast ot the Coming -Veek Washington, March Republican state conventions to elect delegates, to the national convention will be held dur ing; the week 1rr Virginia and Oklahoma The Taft supporters are confident of victory In Virginia, but in the Oklahoma state and district conventions the Roose velt followers plan to make a vigorous fight for control. ' ' . . The Democratic leaders will turn their attention toward Kansas, where the state convention to elect delegates to the Bal timore convention will meet In Hutchin son Thursday. Clark, Wilson and Har mon each claim a following in the Sun flower atate. and the outcome of th convention Is problematical. In Alabama and the state of Washing ton the progressive Republicans are to hold state conferences , to consider plans for pushing the .Roosevelt candidacy. Tennessee Republicans will meet in Nashville Tuesday to nominate a state ticket to be voted for at the coming eleo tlon. The renomlnation of Governor Hooper appears to be assured. A. second connection vvme held In Mav in aewt delegates to the Republican national con vention. . New Mexico's first state legislature will convene In Santa Fe Monday, with. In 10 days after convening the lawmak ers will begin balloting for two United oiaiea senators. A state election la to be held in vw Hampshire Tuesday to eleet gates to the convention which will meet in concord next June to frame a nw state constitution. -Jbabor-troubles Rnd"the"rtrevale"nr tin'-' rest In the Industrial world will son. tlnue to occupy a larae measure nf nuh. lie attention. The progress of the coal miners' strike In Great Britain will he followed with interest, while efforts to prevent a similar struggle between the mine owners and miners in the anthracite field - of the , United States will attract . even more attention on this side. It la expected that the operators' answer to the de mands of the miners will be made pub lic at a joint conference called for Wednesday. The Si labor union officials and busi ness agents under indictment In the dynamite conspiracy eases are to be arraigned tit the federal court at Indian- spoils Tuesday. At that time the men charged with crime must answer wheth er they are guilty or not guilty. Ihe contempt proceedings involving President Samuel Gompers, Vice-President John Mitchell and Secretary Frank Morrison, of the American Federation of Labor, are docketed for hearing Monday before the full bench of the supreme court of the District of Columbia. A joint conference of locomotive en gineers and managers of nraeticallv all of the eastern railroads win meet in SEVEN FAMOUS SEA FIGHTS .The Battle The first great sea fight, which may actually be considered . as such, was the battle of Balamls, an "engagement on the water which occurred 480 years before Christ. Considering this erode effort at naval warfare With the pres ent day sea battles, there Is a striking contrast between these oar and close fighting combats and the encounters of the present day big dreadnoughts. In the early history of the Egyp tians, the Phoenician, the Ct.4ans, and other warlike nations occupying the territory about the Mediterranean sea, frequent encounters at sea are told, but the "first great battle on the sea of which any . story can be told, was the fight la the Straits of Salamls, when tha Greeks and the Persians strove for the mastery of the near' east. King Darius had found that his hold on the Greek cities of Asia Minor was insecure as long ms they could secure aid from beyond the archipelago, Then he sent his satraps to raid the Greek mainland, the first Invasion, that of Marathon, ending disastrously. His son,' Xerxes, tookTip the quarrel and devoted years to preparing not only to fight on land but on the sea. Themlsto cles was wise for his time, and recog nizing what. Xfrxes would eventually undertake, he advised ms reuow coun trymen that it would be best for them also to build and equip a fleet. It was the possession of .this .fleet; that -enabled Themlstocles and Athens to play a decisive part in the , crisis of the struggle with Asia. It was ln tho spring of 480 that the Persians began their march from Asia Minor, soldiers, laying waste the coun try -through which they passed. The soldiers in order to avert famine, were compelled to keep in touch with the ships that crossed arid recrossed the narrow seas, bringing heavy cargoes of food and forage from the ports of Aeia, and escorted by squadrons of long, war galleys. k: Themlstocles decided that the Greeks must become masters of the sea,. He first compelled all of the inhabitants living along the seacoast to be conveyed to" Salamls. They were at once put to work to construct a fleet which would be more than a match for the enemy. In every creek shipwrights, were busy night and day building new ships -or refitting old ones, To every Greek seaport messages . had been sent, beg ging them to. sand to the Straits of Sa larets as - many ships,. arsnasa and fighting men as they could muster. The wind and waves had already bean, xlghtlng for the Greeks,, Th Par- N'ew Yo:k c!:y Thur:jy to co-s.. '.r t).e wage (iprrsri.is recent'y n-ada ry tie en gineers. The demand is for an Increase In pay ranging from 15 to SO per cent and the UrtdardizatlonDf wages. Among ottier meetings and events that will figure more or less prominently in the news of the week will be the land show In Los Angeles,' the opening of the Northwest Electrical exhibition in Minneapolis, and the ninth general convention of the Religious Education association Jn St. Louis. Tanglefoot By Miles Overholt BACK TO THE FARM The t-esl estate dealer with ball-bearing . jaws i Said Oet on an acre and dodge c1ff laws. Hi said and repeated: "Get BACK TO THE FARM. - Where there's little to do, with no hard times alarm. Go raise some prise pumpkins and on ions and spuds. And save ' many, dollars by wearing cheap duds." With columns of figures as long as a string, He showed me how money was sown' In the stir I nr. And how In the fall when the picking was prime. The money came back like a smooth ounctured dime. He showed me how fellows with 98 cents Now loll on the cushions and grab in the rents , On houses and mansions, from Stratford to Strand Which they mat's from an acre of self acting land. -T He had letters to show me bow John w. no Had "raked In' the' coin "with the" aid "oT ; a hoe: How one Richard Roe from an acre of . hay Had sixty-two barrels of oash stored .. away. . Well, I purchased tlfe land, and along with the deed The salesman Included a package of - seed. . M And I planted the acre with turnips and beans, And cnions and. carrots and lettuce and greens,. Cucumbers and melons and pumpkins and peas Then I waited results and I lived at my ease, The vegetables grew, put despair on the. shelf. And I strutted around and shook hands with myself, , p At last when the crop was all ready to i : Pick,' ' . . I hired a fat yokel with shovel and pick. ' " And I told him to pluck It and bring it to town, And then I got ready to salt lucre down. Ere a month had gone forward, the digger came In : With a sack o'er his back and his face all a-grm. And he oiaid: "There were twenty-nine 'taters, I think. But I et 'em last Tuesday, so they're hern on tit' blink: The rest of th' stuff is all here In th' sack. An you owe me ten dollars." He set rinwn hi naok. Three turnips were there, and two on Ions, e bean. " V Two bunches of lettuce" that should have been green, . A dwarfed, sun. dried pumpkin, a dry crawnv heet . But I paid the fat yokel and took a re Th'eifa peafiller'camrby-and T sold hint the croo ; . For ninety-eight cents, with the sack at the top. Now the acre's for sale. I have letters to show That coin can be dug from the ground . with a hoe. I can prove that a man with but ninety eight cents - Will shortly be busy collecting tits rents. If he'll buy just an acre of self-acting .. janj . . ... .. ,, , He'll own high-priced houses from Strat ford to Strand, If he'll plant anything that belongs In the soil, ' ' And will flee from the city and cut put the toll.. . There's 'naught can compare with the green country's charm, . But I'm here In the town with my BACK TO THIS FARM I ; His Memories. From the Birmingham, Age-Harald. "Does the past hold for , youVany pleasant memories?' asked the senti mental person. t "Ah, yes," sighed the practical mar ried man. "We 'once had a good cook who stayed two weeks." of Snlamls . , slan war fleet of 1100 great ships had coasted southwards by the shores- of Thessaly till they neared the group of islands off the northern point of Eu boea. "Their scouts reported a Greek fleet to be lying in the channel between the large Island and the mainland. The Persians anchored off Cape Sepias, but a heavy storm arose and when it had subsided only 800 galleys of the Persian armada were still In seaworthy condi tion. The typical warship of this Persian Greek war was probably not more than 0 or 100 feet long. They were manned by about 150 oarsmen and fighting, nat urally arranged in- such closa quarters that they weVe in one another's way. ft was late in the afternoon of the day of the battle of Salamls that the action began, with the Greeks bearing down on their eneniles. They fought through the night. Tho fighting continued the next day, and the third day the Persians Irled to force the harrows by a frontal at tack, but , the Greeks held their own. Finally for the decisive point of the struggle the Greek fleet formed ln'two divlslona-of unequlalstrengtnr" Sixty thousand men rowers and warriors were crowded on board the Greek boats. At 'least twice as many must have been borne "on the decks and rowers' benche of. "the Persian armada. ' v - Th opposing forces - moved toward one another, and on account of the im possibility, of maneuvering such small craft, all order wac soon lost and the Straits of Salamls was the scene' of a vast melee, hundreds of ships crowding together In the narrow pass between the Island and the mainland. All order had been lost in the Persian fleet at an early stage of the fight. Gradually but emphatically the Greeks were winning the day, and Xerxes, in his anger at seeing the disaster of his fleet, ordered the troops stationed on the beach to behead every officer and man of their crews, and the sentence was at once executed. The dosing scene of the battle was indeed- a time of .unmiti gated horrors, for even the Greeks slew all the enemy who fell into their hands. Finally the remainder of the Persian fleet took to sea, but the Greeks did not pursue them far beyond the straits. They hesitated to venture Into : opn waters, where, numbers might tell against them if the. Persians raDM. But Xerxes had been so impressed by .the failure of his great armada to force the narrows of Salamls that he changed ail-his plana. lima ..the , first great naval batUe was won by the Greeks. Tomorrow Battle of Lepanto, TLe Shadow of Sc!::J ulc Iv. " Richard W. Chllj In rolliers'. The commonwealth' is paying thou sands of dollars a day to keep 900 armed men in a city which had been abandoned by the mill men to the sway beginning of the strikit had no police urjrmniaiign . woruiy oi ina name uw pariment. Massachusetts herself is angry. If the full truth wsb known, If th tariff protection of schedule K, supposed to be given her citizens, were shown to be "distributed" to a handful of men, leaving the thirty-odd thousand textile workers of Lawrence where they are paid a wage that drives then be tween bare subsistence in the mills and starvation outside, and if. in addition. It were realised that the cheapest labor had been attracted from Europe by- false promises and misrepresentations, Mas sachusetts would be madder still. The strike Is no strike. ' On this everyone Is agraed. the American Fed eration of Labor has tried to organise the situation Into.-, strike- form the form In which each textile worker be longs to a class, not of textile, workers in general, but those of hls own Crafi, and may make a -collective bargain with his employer. Whatever the merits of the plan, however much the mill agents would like to assist or however much they have assisted. the old labor union to organise, there is the cold, bare fact, fortunately or , unfortunately as you choose, that the committees ef the Cen. tral Labor union could control the action of but a handful of the workers, and could deliver by their bargaining llttl else buLlhe niorai-aupport-of-thelr or- au'""vn .na us - sinuate member ship in other cities. , ,' The one startling truth about Law- -rence is that . nationalities Without tne' organisation and without the. agitation of trained leaders, even without a com mon tongue by which to undenstan J each other, felt the last straw break, and together wlththa-slniplinstlncts of patient animals Infuriated at last, rushed out of the mills. v t- One family out of every three takes lodgers, but in the last analysis tha major part of the Income from this source la wrenched away by the" real estate agents. The' household congestion , becomes greater. Jtents are raised again. ' It Is all a question of what the traffic will bear. Charity workers come in, Money Is spent on this. Relief is given. -But the rents are raised again. - The traffic has been made to bear more.' A great UnOCCUDieJ 'countrv ninnimj. but ' except for some fifty-odd "modal vuimissB , ouui Dy the American Woolen company, no. effective effort to relieve these conditions, has been made by the mill owners. Fifty "model cottages" for a population of thirty-odd thousand workers make good advertising. It is a step In the rlirhi Artr.n but it makes 1ft tir mpreBBioh on the '"' Lawrence. -There is nnt v,n MnMf.n.AM v. .... . m,. v . vuumivii uusiness- JlSLS60' ,n,,leaIln with these la- -..- mionamea "strike" was In the main fprecipltated by the coming Into force of a law e n.-..v..-.v fh! "2 0,rer, flf months ago, limiting Jl JTtSi t0T wome nd chil dren, to 64 hours a week, worFlli 'hi i!ie arument that as much c? fn S? lln by '""sed efficlen fny fPerly done whatever that th M..hT..7rL wnere more hours Per week arm aiinn,. 4...- ZL" " " .,,.. - om mey are d,8vnte because of ,""" .taxation ana more stringent" egislatlon,- The intent of those behind However, : was not to reduce ..w-.., iimj-Bgenis Knew what they were going to do. They knew they had a forela-n. chiidnt. a,Z . ! ith; ?hty Proceeded to plan 1 "1 "r- ""morai rrom the point of view of the ordinary mnnnf , Sfc,.'!?-??11 ?' 'n-awtry In Massa- ...., ,,, aimost universally coti demnett them. They planned to give no effective notice ahnnt A."" when the hours were reduced. The re- ,u a surprisa The de- ?inn Jw,a', nn0need by means of a XllPDed" nav nv,in. n,., , , ogether the nations of Lawrence and iaug tne speakers of half 4 hundred tomrues n hi . i'!h ..!?C.",bu.!ry' deluding such words """"J, TlCKet." "scab." "mill" S6"" 1,fU'" "capital." "stick to- Kether. The lrnnhthlA t.s 1 . . Falling to melt in the famous American melting pot, the sodden mass has stirred and wlth:lss and a scream spilled It el?ovrHnttrnMh common cause of social" protest a pot In which Socialism, and revolutionary proposal are boiled down with terrible losses and. terribla vapors. . .. Wilson and Oklahoma, . From New York Post. The Wlnnlnar nf half ih ni,i.i.. delegation ta the Baltimore convention m a nigniy significant victory for the Woodrow Wilson cause, for it fully con firms the estirhata that had k. ,1 by his advocates upon his strength in 11 nuuuie weai. in OKtanoma Champ Clark was supposed to be very strongly intrenched, the neighborhood feeling, as well as other elements, being a power ful factor In his favor. With this send off in a comparatively unpromising State. It mav now ha krrntA ulatlve Indications of , Governor--.W11-" r 0 "nengin wui oe snowing , theni- "otn in tne west and In the SOUth, Of course, mnrh nHIl developments, tn the political situation -..oiRiij-ina m tne jKepuwican as well f:I n democratic party,. The case Is r,"?. ai'Ierent trom wht U would be If the Republican nomination were a luregone conclusion. For th present.' nobody can be quite certain what aspect the camoRlirn will nfneant. a - . . . .... 1 o in a b urn las moment the choice may turn oa the reeling that one Democrat rather than another Is the "logical" candidate to be put-up at Baltimore in response to the choice made the previous week at Chi cago. All the same, the fact that Okla homa was not captured bodily by the' Champ Clark boom is of good augury for the party.. . , Pointed Paragrapns One man's folly may'be another man's widow, , 1 1 Enw provides the miM th. throws at success. ' And the easier th 4nh th v.... it Is to land. 4 Be sure of vour nim in itf moving into a glass"houe. . A good scare la of mora -h.nom tn some men than good advice. ' - - . Most msn who nr nhnflnnrmA h a. tectives are more or less ahady. - ' The man who Is liberal with hit, .... .... ... . . w . n . ..( ...0 PJ 111 pathy seldom hands out anything else. Tha man who makes, s-nrirl itn.'t .1. down and wait for his ship to come In. more than may be truthfully" said of Liie oiuun. ""- '"I fJ'-1 "'.'"' """1 f If It wasn't for his -wif. . ran'wiM never know anything worth VnA,l-. about his neighbors. . I A